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Parlika

The documentary examines the status of Afghan women during the transformation of Afghanistan from a totalitarian Taliban theocracy to a democratic country. It tells a story of Suraya Parlika, an Afghan woman who after the defeat of Taliban dared to enter highand public politics, which is eminently a territory of men. It is a territory, where the presence of active women, despite constitutional guarantees, is considered an oddity. Especially when brave women with unveiled face don´t remain silent, but try to stimulate an open discussion in public space: a discussion on disproportions between the laws and the (in)compliance with them in terms of everyday life, on an open and latent discrimination of women, or on particular crimes of men against the women who try to live their life more dignified.